it means x people have been active. As in they have commented or posted in the community in that month.
this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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Okay thank you. I'm just surprised that it's so few!
yeah, from my experience lemmy has way fewer but more active users compared to reddit
Yeah that’s been my take too. Honestly, minus missing more OC, I like Lemmy a lot. It’s definitely starting to hit that Reddit-like feel to it
This is exactly how Reddit felt before the great Digg exodus.
It's going to be interesting to see how Lemmy evolves and what impact this has on reddit. The engagement here and activity level of the users seems so much higher than on Reddit.
I wonder what percentage of "posters" came over verse lurkers.
What if reddit lost 50% of it's posters and lemmy got them all?
Yep... I still think the "Powerusers" - Mods and actually active Posters, creators of original content - were the ones most likely to use 3rd Party Apps and thus have left Reddit after all the shit that has happened
I noticed a huge drop in Quality in the last 2 Days on Reddit (and a rise of Alt-Right bs), lets see how it develops
For now I feel really comfortable here on Lemmy
I think there will be a natural constriction and consolidation in communities over the next few months.
It was almost like a landgrab with all the excitement and people creating communities. A lot of them were similar so they are diluted a bit.
I think, eventually, we'll see people gravitate to one or two particular instances of and the other will close or wither.
I wish some of the Lemmy servers were more intentional about community creation though--to reduce the number of similar communities.
I get that. I hope you're right so we can get bigger but fewer communities about the same topic
Do votes count as activity?
Personally, I would consider that too lurker-y to count, but I could see both sides of that particular argument.
Then again, I could get off my ass and go read the fuckin code... Is my reddit refugee showing?? :P
I don't think they do, I see a lot of communities where there are more votes on a lot of posts than the active users count.
They don't
Adding on to what everyone else has said, the "Users per month" counter counts only the users on your home instance (the instance you created your account on) who have posted or commented in the subreddit this month. The total number of active users across all instances can be seen when you view the community from its home instance.
Really? Because in my private instance, the communities have a lot more users than just 1.
It could be that bigger instances consider syncing the aggregates to be a low priority task, because the user counts on my instances (100-300 users) are much lower than the counts on the original instances.
I'm pretty sure it means the number of users that have posted or commented during the past 30 days.
I can confirm this but only empirically, as I know of a community where only like 4 people actually commented, but I know at least a few dozen looked at.
Few people isn't so bad. Common problem on Reddit was when a cool subreddit grows and immediately goes downhill.
That's true. It's gonna take some getting used to, I was hoping to see something similar to r/ProCreate with hundreds of posts with arts and tutorials. But it will probably grow over the next months :)